Bihu Recipes
Nariyel Laddu | Til Pitha | Ghila Pitha | Brinjal Khar | Fish Pitika | Melon Beej
1. Nariyel Laddu
Ingredients:
Dry and shredded coconut- approximately 3 cups.
Milk- 1 cup.
Sugar- 2 cups.
Procedure:
- Use a pan to boil the milk.
- While you are boiling the milk, add 2 cups of shredded coconut and stir it well.
- Sugar should only be added after the milk is absorbed.
- Stir it well on a medium temperature until the sides of the pan are cleared.
- After you are done, remove the mixture and make small balls.
- Put these balls in the shredded coconut to make laddus.
- You are now ready to serve it.
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2. Til Pitha
Ingredients:
Sticky Rice- 2 cups
Jaggery- 100 grams.
Black Sesame seeds- 80 grams
Water- 4 cups
Procedure:
- Soak the rice in water for few hours.
- Crush it after draining the excess water.
- Bake sesame seeds and you have to remove its outer shell by beating it.
- Jaggery should be cut into small pieces.
- Blend Jaggery with the black sesame seeds.
- Heat the griddle and spread the rice batter over the griddle and give it a shape of your choice.
- Put the stuffing of Jaggery and sesame on the griddle while heating it.
- When the rice batter is firm, start rolling it to cover the stuffing.
- Heat the griddle in low temperature for some time before taking it off. Jaggery should not be melted.
- Serve it.
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3. Ghila Pitha
Ingredients:
Rice Flour- 1 kg.
Shredded Jaggery- ½ kg.
Cooking oil- 200 grams.
Warm water- 1 cup.
Procedure:
- Put the Jaggery in a cup of warm water and stir it properly.
- Wait for some time.
- Crinkle the rice flour in the jiggery water.
- Squeeze the mixture properly until the dough is smooth and soft.
- Keep it aside for 10 minutes with a lid.
- Make small balls from the dough.
- Make half inch thick rounds by squashing them.
- Fry them in a medium flame until these are brown.
- You are now ready with the item.
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4. Brinjal Khar
Ingredients:
Small Eggplants- 2
Garlic Cloves- 3
Khar
Pieces of fish
Crashed onion- 1
Oil
Salt
Procedure:
- Chop the brinjal into small pieces.
- Wash the pieces of fish and make them dirt free.
- Heat oil in a pan and fry garlic and onions until they are red.
- Put the pieces of fish in the pan.
- Add salt according to taste.
- Wait for few minutes before adding chopped brinjals and cook the mixture.
- At last add khar and cook.
- Serve it hot along with rice.
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5. Fish Pitika
Ingredients:
Fish -500 grams
Mustard paste- 2 tablespoon.
Garlic pieces- 2 to 8.
Lemon Juice- 2 tablespoon.
Crashed green Chilies- 2
Mustard oil- 2 tablespoon
Banana leaf- washed and brushed with slight oil.
Procedures:
- Unpeel the garlic before crushing it.
- Wrap the fish properly in a banana leaf and heat it until cooked.
- Separate the bones and skin of the fish.
- Crash the fish and add soil and mix it.
- Heat oil in a pan.
- Again add garlic and mustard paste in the oil.
- Fry the mixture for one minute on a low flame.
- Now the mixture has to be mixed with the mashed fish.
- Now add the lemon and green chilies with it.
- The item is ready to serve.
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6. Melon Beej (seed)
Ingredients:
Musk Melon seeds of 75 grams Melon.
Grounded Sugar- 30 grams.
Water- 1 cup.
Ghee- 1 tablespoon.
Procedures:
- Dry the seeds of musk melon after cleaning them.
- Heat ghee in a saucepan and put seeds in it.
- Heat it for 2/3 minutes until they are brown.
- Put grounded sugar in the saucepan and let the musk melon seeds stick at each other.
- Mix it appropriately.
- It is ready to be served.
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